NEMA session SEE/Change: Seeing change in How to Offer Online Museum Content to Schools. Hosted by David Rau, Director of Education and Outreach at the Florence Griswold Museum in Lyme, CT, the SEE/Change session at NEMA introduced a prototype of online curriculum centered upon one …
Last week at the New England Museum Association (NEMA) conference, I had the opportunity to attend an off-site session at the Osterville Historical Museum. The session, titled “Not Your Grandmother’s House Museum,” was about how to increase engagement of local communities at small historic sites. …
This past week the New England Museum Association (NEMA) hosted its annual conference from October 25-27 in Falmouth, MA. The theme of this conference was Truth and Trust: Museums in a Polarized World, and over the next few weeks, we will feature guest posts from …
With Halloween and Veteran’s Day coming up, I began thinking about how American museums respond, or not, to various holidays. In attempting to stay relevant to their visitors, should museums address holidays? If so, which ones? We certainly cannot expect every museum to celebrate every …
The Discovery Museums (Acton, MA) seek a Development Intern to start in early 2018 through mid-May for approximately 15-20 hours per week (schedule and hours flexible). The intern’s primary focus will be on coordinating the Museum’s online auction, which in spring 2017 raised more than …
113 Dutch and Flemish painting masterpieces, have been gifted to the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, doubling the institutions Dutch collection. Couples, Rose-Marie and Eijk van Otterloo and Susan and Matthew Weatherbie, decided to contribute their two private collections to the museum, which include Rembrants and …